Wellspring Bylaws Voting
A few months ago, changes to our bylaws were presented to our congregation from our Servant Leadership Council (SLC). It is now time for the congregation to make an official vote on the acceptance of the bylaws. The meeting for this vote will be held after service (in-person and online) and will only take a few minutes.
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Executive Summary
1) Transition from a Senior Pastor leadership model to a Lead Pastor model with collaboration built into the sharing of responsibilities and decision-making amongst other pastoral team members and SLC.
2) Nominating Committee and Pastoral Search Committee can be formed more flexibly, under the direction of the SLC.
3) SLC members will serve three-year terms, compared to two-year terms, for better leadership development, continuity, and succession planning.
Bylaws Proposal
Bylaws are a guiding document for our church and are established to protect the congregation from potential problems. It clearly lays out rules that relate to who makes decisions, what decisions can be made by whom, rights, and expectations. When there are questions about what to do in certain situations, whose responsibility an issue is, or if action taken is appropriate the Bylaws can guide us to the answers to those questions.
The Servant Leadership Council (SLC) had looked at the current Bylaws and have endeavored to provide more harmony between what Wellspring's Bylaws say and the practices that Wellspring has. The new Bylaws proposal has drawn from the Evangelical Covenant Church's (ECC) Bylaws templates, recommendations from the ECC, Bylaws from other ECC churches, Wellspring's current practice, and what your SLC sees as best practices moving forward.
Below you can access a comparison of the major changes from Wellspring's original Bylaws to what is now proposed, as well as the proposed Bylaws in full.